Production Engineering Manager

🔥 15 minutes ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏭 Production Engineer

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Canva

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

📚 Education

💰 $200M Venture Round on 2021-09

SaaS • Media • Education

Canva is a versatile online design platform that empowers users to create a wide range of professional designs with ease. From social media posts and presentations to business cards and posters, Canva provides thousands of templates and design tools to help users bring their creative ideas to life. The platform also offers a suite of AI-powered features to enhance creativity and productivity, including tools like Magic Write for copy generation and Magic Edit for photo transformations. Canva caters to individuals, teams, and enterprises, making it an ideal solution for collaborative design and workflow management. It is also committed to sustainability and social impact, offering free educational and nonprofit access to its premium features.

📋 Description

• Lead Core, one of Production Engineering's two teams • Lead software engineers who own Production Engineering's services and broader cross-team engineering problems • Turn complex or loosely defined problems into focused engineering goals and deliver them • Stay engaged with technical work to challenge assumptions, understand trade-offs and support strong engineering decisions • Define the team's next phase, focus, priorities and future problem areas • Shape initiative structure and measurement • Turn lessons from individual work into broadly reusable engineering capability • Set clear priorities, coach engineers, create psychological safety and develop team organisational fluency and influence • Help build reliable services at scale, reusable engineering standards, Core–Embedded feedback loops and increasing engineering depth • Contribute to Canva's reliability, efficiency and predictability as complexity grows

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading software engineers through complex or ambiguous technical work • Experience working in software environments where reliability, scalability and production risk mattered • Experience taking significant technical initiatives from problem understanding through delivery across multiple teams • Experience helping teams adopt new tools, practices or ways of working • Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly, set direction without prescribing every decision, and create an environment where engineers can challenge ideas • Strong grounding in computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading and data structures • Depth in languages such as Go, Python, Java or C++ • Strong working knowledge of system internals, networking and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP • Comfort reasoning through ambiguous problems spanning multiple components and constraints • Familiarity with observability, capacity, failure modes and operational characteristics of production systems • Experience in large-scale or high-criticality environments • Prior SRE/Production Engineering management experience preferred • Experience with large-scale storage, CDN, networking or distributed infrastructure preferred • History of developing technical leaders preferred • Experience shaping the scope, ways of working or identity of an evolving technical team preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity packages • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more • Flexible leave options • Virtual interviews